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Consultant says National Stadium safe

Mar 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Consultant says National Stadium safe

THE engineering consultant hired to inspect the National Stadium has concluded that the facility “is as safe as it was built”. The consultant, Hue Lyew Chin Engineering Ltd, was hired in the wake...

Car heading in the right direction – Jeffrey

Mar 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Car heading in the right direction – Jeffrey

– Steady progress being made Former motor bike champion Kevin Jeffrey, who made the switch to motor car racing after suffering a horrific crash many years ago speaking with Kaieteur Sport...

West Dem. hammer East Bank 5-0, Berbice swamp Essequibo 6-0

Mar 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on West Dem. hammer East Bank 5-0, Berbice swamp Essequibo 6-0

A Trayon Bobb helmet trick set the platform for a big win for West Demerara when rivalry in the Guyana Football Federation Under-17 league continued on Saturday last at the Georgetown Football...

New boxing Gym opens in Berbice

Mar 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on New boxing Gym opens in Berbice

The new established Central New Amsterdam Boxing Gym, situated in the Central Police Station compound recently opened its doors to be the second gym in the county. The other Berbice gym is the...

Adams, Yadram give Guyana 1st round victory

Mar 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Adams, Yadram give Guyana 1st round victory

Guyana made a very good start to their 2010 Regional Under-15 campaign when they beat Windward Islands by 50 runs yesterday at Gilbert Park in Trinidad and Tobago in the opening round of the...

GCC win and lose over the weekend

Mar 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on GCC win and lose over the weekend

GCC defeated Vikings and lost to DCC over the weekend in their opening matches in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Haier Cup 40-overs second division cricket tournament sponsored by...

LBI cricket facility should be best in the region

Mar 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on LBI cricket facility should be best in the region

Indoor nets and hostel to be opened in two weeks By Sean Devers I had my first tour of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) indoor practice nets and hostel yesterday and despite the controversy surrounding...

GCB IN CRISIS

Mar 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on GCB IN CRISIS

Mediator should step in By Sean Devers With the opening match in the T20 World Cup in Guyana just over a month away it is imperative that the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), known for its excellent...

“Knight” of long, creeping secrets

Mar 30, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on “Knight” of long, creeping secrets

A gentleman came up to me last year in the supermarket and said, “Freddie, you don’t understand that thing with Nirmal Rekha; you keep writing about it but you don’t understand it.” His...

ALL IN A DAY

Mar 30, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ALL IN A DAY

A young boy lives in the countryside with his family. His father is a cow herder and also a farmer. This young lad is twelve years old. He awakes at 5:00 hrs each day. Since his parents have...

Mosquito invasion of New Amsterdam

Mar 30, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Mosquito invasion of New Amsterdam

Dear Editor, In a recent telephone interview with Health Inspector attached to the New Amsterdam Town Council, Mr. Ackloo Ramsudh, concerning the mosquito invasion over the past weeks, he divulged...

Digicel to the rescue

Mar 30, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Digicel to the rescue

Dear Editor, Two fortunate Guyanese nationals will soon have their dreams become a reality, when they zoom off to the 2010 FIFA World Cup Soccer in South Africa. I say to those selected persons well...

Airlines are reducing service worldwide

Mar 30, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Airlines are reducing service worldwide

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter posted by Vishnu Bisram in Kaieteur News on March 19, 2010. It never ceases to amaze me how uninformed and ignorant some Guyanese people can be. Mr. Bisram...

Power sharing, the door to power?

Mar 30, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Power sharing, the door to power?

Dear Editor, Power sharing is attractive to the traditional and new opposition groups in Guyana, not as a means of conflict resolution and governance, but as a less competitive way of entering the...

Amaila Falls road programme

Mar 30, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Amaila Falls road programme

Dear Editor, I just read that a contract was awarded to Synergy for constructing the road to Amaila Falls. I also note that Synergy is the original developer for the Hydro Project and several...

Toying with our continental destiny

Mar 30, 2010 knews Editorial Comments Off on Toying with our continental destiny

For as long as one can remember Guyana has always maintained that it has a continental destiny. Historically it has been a country within the West Indies, largely because of a shared history and a...

Fascism and the rule of law in Guyana

Mar 29, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Fascism and the rule of law in Guyana

Did you read what Minister Priya Manickchand said about the DPP’s attitude towards the Court of Appeal Amendment Bill? She defended the Bill and argued that it could have contained more sweeping...

Shot watermelon vendor succumbs

Mar 29, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Shot watermelon vendor succumbs

Hampshire shooting… – cops detain four, vow to break gang Police have detained four men and are hunting for others in connection with the murder of 49- yr- old, Hansraj Samaroo, who was...

Berbice now a drug-cultivating haven

Mar 29, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice now a drug-cultivating haven

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – The Ancient County now tops the list for the cultivation of cannabis sativa (marijuana) in Guyana. This is according to a senior official of the Guyana Police Force, based...

Deadly year for women

Mar 29, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Deadly year for women

– nine murdered in three months By Michael Jordan Nine women have been murdered within the past three months, making this year a deadly one for females. Of this number, three were slain in...

PNCR cannot be terrorised or bullied into submission

Mar 29, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on PNCR cannot be terrorised or bullied into submission

– Corbin Leader of the Parliamentary Opposition, Robert Corbin, recently lambasted the current administration as being replete with corruption, adding that the slothfulness of the judiciary is...

Former tenant robs Landlord and family

Mar 29, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Former tenant robs Landlord and family

A Railway Line Kitty family was tied up with duct tape and robbed at gunpoint by two men, one of whom was once their tenant. This newspaper was told that the incident occurred sometime after 21:00...

Pledged $30B for vulnerable countries still to be realized

Mar 29, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Pledged $30B for vulnerable countries still to be realized

Climate Change Fight… – Jagdeo The monies pledged by some developed countries, namely US$10B over a three year period, is yet to be realised and placed in a fund for developing countries...

Three held for Triumph robbery

Mar 29, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Three held for Triumph robbery

Three persons have being arrested following the robbery and severe beating of Triumph, East Coast Demerara businessman Mohamed Husain. Husain was beaten on Friday night by three-gun toting bandits,...

US goes virtual to solve world’s problem

Mar 29, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on US goes virtual to solve world’s problem

…local embassy urges participation The US Government has launched an ambitious virtual project that hopefully will see thousands of persons logging online from tomorrow to discuss and offer...